thisisnic commented on a change in pull request #10624: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/10624#discussion_r664603120
########## File path: r/R/dplyr-functions.R ########## @@ -280,6 +280,45 @@ nse_funcs$str_trim <- function(string, side = c("both", "left", "right")) { Expression$create(trim_fun, string) } +nse_funcs$substr <- function(string, start, stop) { + assert_that( + length(start) == 1, + msg = "Start of length != 1 not supported in Arrow" + ) + assert_that( + length(end) == 1, + msg = "End of length != 1 not supported in Arrow" + ) + + if (start > stop) { + start <- 0 + stop <- 0 + } else { + start <- max(0, start - 1) + stop <- max(0, stop) + start_stop <- c(min(start, stop), max(start, stop)) + start <- start_stop[1] + stop <- start_stop[2] + } Review comment: Sorry, I'm still confused, could you explain a bit more? Just that it seems a bit dangerous to be swapping parameters around unless we have reason to, right? -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: github-unsubscr...@arrow.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org